When I discovered that Union College’s Teaching
Learning Center (TLC) planned to start offering free academic and life coaching
sessions, my squeal of glee prompted stares from my coworkers. I had to fight
the urge to jump out of my chair, race to the TLC office and schedule my first
appointment.

We are pleased to announce that Union College is currently trialing a campus wide subscription to UpToDate.

UpToDate is an electronic resource offering evidence-based, synthesized medical information quickly at the point of care. It is comprised of original topics that are written, reviewed and continually updated by a faculty of physician experts.

Chicago during the winter is a fascinating place. Eight Scholars experienced some of
what Chicago has to offer on a trip there during Winter Break, February 10-13, 2011. Arriving in Chicago by rented van at 5:00 pm on Thursday, the students spent the evening in the Art Institute
of Chicago, which was free of admission that evening. On a whirlwind tour, they saw most of the highlights of the museum, including Georges Seurat’s "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"

When Jovannah Poor Bear-Adams
first started creating Navajo pottery at the Holbrook Seventh-day
Adventist School, it was just a craft to her. It was a way for her to
fill up empty hours and make a little extra cash. However, since then it
has become much, much more. According to Poor Bear-Adams, creating
traditional art is "how I connect to my Native American heritage."

Union College nursing graduates posted the highest pass rate
in the state of Nebraska on the National Council Licensure Examination, or
NCLEX, for a fifth straight quarter, ending in December 2010. Since October
2009, Union's 97 percent pass rate has surpassed the fourteen other nursing
schools in the state and the Nebraska (88 percent) and national (87 percent)
averages.

From now until April 7, 2011, DynaMed will be available for the students and faculty who are interested in medical topics to explore. DynaMedoffers clinically organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics, surveillance of more than 500 journals, and daily content updates. If you have questio

What do you believe about illiteracy? Is someone who cannot read or write stupid? Is illiteracy primarily a socioeconomic problem? Does there come a point when it is too late for a person to learn to read? These are all common myths about adult illiteracy. Join us on January 19, 2011 for a discussion of John Corcoran's book, The Teacher Who Couldn't Read, and learn the truth about these as other issues related to literacy. Debbie Forshee-Sweeney from Union's Teaching Learning Center will lead the discussion beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Janna Buttrick, a junior at Union College, will make a
remarkable trek from Lincoln, Neb., to her home in Tampa, Fla., over Christmas break. The
grueling 1500-plus mile trip won’t be just for pleasure or to test the limitations
of her own body—she will fight traffic on the highway to raise funds to fight a

Union College nursing graduates posted a 97.3 percent
first-time pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination, or NCLEX,
for the last year from October 2009 to October 2010. Union finished well ahead of the Nebraska pass rate (88.32
percent) and the national pass rate (87.56 percent) and had the highest rate of
the fourteen schools of nursing in the state.

Union College Library in collaboration with the Writing Studio, Teaching Learning Center, Career Center, ESL, and the Campus Store is pleased to announce One Book One Union 2010-2011. This year's selection, The Teacher Who Couldn't Read by John Corcoran, is the story of a man who finished high school and college, became a teacher, and later started his own business, all without being able to read proficiently. He finally learned to read when he was 48 years old.

Your comments and suggestions about the library do make a difference to the library staff. We are interested in hearing what Union College students and employees have to say about the library. Currently several venues are open for submitting your feedback.

A two-question survey is open on Survey Monkey until November 19. A link to this survey has been emailed to all students and employees. If you have not yet participated, look for your invitation in your email inbox.

The Union College Education Program submitted their online documents on May 14, 2010. The program is one of the first to participate in a new pilot program recently implemented by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

Two Union College student missionaries serving in Peru are unharmed after river pirates accosted their boat on Friday. Rachel Downey and
Stephanie
Rivas are volunteering this school year with Touch of Love Ministries
based in
Pucallpa, Peru. The two were traveling with several other volunteers
when the
incident took place.

“We thank God that all our student missionaries
are safe,”
said Rich Carlson, Union’s director of student missions. “We have been
in
contact with the parents involved and are working with the local
authorities to
make sure this matter gets resolved.”

A picture may be worth 1000 words, but Union College has
found a visit may be worth 10,000 or more. Although all indicators pointed to a
third straight year of declining enrollment, Union saw an expanded campus visit
program play a significant role in increasing the fall 2010 enrollment head count to 901 with
a full-time equivalency of 818—up two percent over the previous year.

The library is excited to announce the avaibility of a new online resource. Tell Me More from Auralog is a language learning program designed to get students started with learning a language, provide a refresher for those who have already received training in a second language, or to complement a language learning course that is in progress.